Recipe Weekend: Snoop Dogg Presents Goon with the Spoon by Snoop Dogg, Earl "E-40" Stevens

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Synopsis:

The follow-up to From Crook to Cook, this next-level cookbook is all about cooking for a crowd and bringing together memorable meals for any occasion, with 65+ recipes from rappers Snoop Dogg and E-40.

Following the breakout success of his first cookbook, From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg's Kitchen (more than 1 million copies sold), Snoop Dogg returns with this new collection of recipes in collaboration with his friend and iconic Bay Area rapper E-40.

Drawing inspiration from both rappers' musical catalogs, their favorite meals to cook and eat together, and E-40's Filipino food business, Lumpia, here are 65+ crowd-pleasing dishes that range from drinks to main courses to desserts.

A number of Snoop and E-40's well-known industry pals appear in recipe headnotes about their most epic dinner parties and nights out. Seriously entertaining, this soulful cookbook is the follow-up fans are hungry for.

Review:

This is a varied mix of homestyle and party foods, from an eclectic mix of cooks- you have their family influences, combined with cultural influences, combined with influence from friends. And when you think about it, isn't that how ALL of our cooking evolves? We take the best from home, add our mix too it, add in what we learn from friends and like from their tables, and bamm, we have our own style. I definitely wanted the book for the cheeseburger lumpia recipe, which does NOT fail- it's awesome! You can use egg roll wrappers if you have to (lumpia wrappers can be hard to find in rural Southland LOL), but just use our trick to use a small roller and roll them out a bit thinner before stuffing them! There are also excellent cocktail and party recipes, perfect for holiday entertaining! Most of the recipes don't require things you can't find at the local grocery/box store, and it would be a fun book to give to fans of Snoop and Earl!

Recipe:

Pretty sure where Snoop etal might have got this recipe from (our local Acadian boy made good, hmmm? LOL), but it's perfect for afterschool snacks, snacking on the weekend, football games get togethers and holiday entertaining!

About the Authors:

A cultural icon with platinum-winning albums (Doggy Style went 4x platinum and The Doggfather went 2x platinum), Snoop Dogg has been a beloved figure since he debuted in 1993. Originally a rapper/songwriter/producer, he has crossed over into celebrity pop culture, appearing in cult classic shows like The L Word, Entourage, and Comedy Central Roasts. He has developed and produced his own movies and TV shows, including Oscar-winning Training Day and VH1's Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party. An active entrepreneur, Snoop Dogg launched a cannabis-focused venture capital fund, Casa Verde Capital, as well as a cannabis lifestyle brand, Merry Jane, in October 2015. Snoop wrote a cookbook and published a follow-up calendar, and Merry Jane published a series of three CBD books (Merry Jane's The CBD Solution: Wellness, Sex, and Living) with Chronicle Books.

Earl “E-40” Stevens is a multiplatinum recording artist, actor, and entrepreneur who hails from Vallejo, California. Over the course of his 30+ year career in the music industry, E-40 has firmly solidified his status as a living hip-hop legend, having released several multiplatinum and gold studio albums, mixtapes, collaborations, and hit singles, including “U and Dat,” “Tell Me When To Go,” “Choices (Yup),” and “Function,” among countless others. As a solo artist, E-40 holds the record for most solo album entries by a hip-hop artist on the Billboard 200 charts (32). Beyond his accolades as an entertainer, the Vallejo native has become equally successful as an entrepreneur, having built a robust food and beverage empire. To date, E-40 has launched over 15 different still and sparkling wine offerings under his “Earl Stevens Selections” line, a tequila (E. Cuarenta Tequila), a cognac (Tycoon Cognac), a bourbon (Kuiper Belt Bourbon), a gin (Kuiper Belt Gin), a vodka (Tycoon Vodka), a variety of pre-mixed cocktails (Sluricane), and a golden lager beer (E. Cuarenta Cerveza). His food brand—“Goon With The Spoon”—also features lines of ice cream, burritos, and packaged sausages in a wide array of flavors. Additionally, E-40 is the co-owner of The Lumpia Company, a growing Filipino food business with a restaurant in Oakland, a stand inside Oracle Park (the San Francisco Giants stadium), and a food truck in San Francisco.